Patrick McKeating

1968 - 2025

McKeating, Patrick M., died suddenly December 3, 2025 in Neenah, Wisconsin. Patrick was born in Buffalo November 26, 1968, the son of Michael P. McKeaitng and the late Rozella Benedict McKeating. He attended Clarence Central Schools and Bishop Timon High School. He studied culinary arts at the Milwaukee Area Technical College Culinary Arts School. He worked as a chef in restaurants in the Buffalo area, and moved to Wisconsin in the mid 1990's, where he worked as a chef in several restaurants and wound up in Neenah, WI where he worked and lived for two decades. He is survived by his father, Michael P. McKeating, his sister Kate M. McKeating-Bradley, his former wife, Desiree Holden of Neenah, WI, two sons, Michael, age 31 of Appleton, WI, and Brendan, age 28, of Buffalo, and two stepchildren, David Stephenson of Fort Worth, TX, and Michelle Benedetto of Milwaukee. A Memorial Mass will be offered at Sts. Peter & Paul R.C. Church, 5480 Main Street, Williamsville at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 20, 2025. All are invited.